But you are wrong. If those good cops don’t do anything about the bad cops then they are the biggest part of the problem. The problem is what it is today because of the silence of other cops to not report the bad ones.

guy in id

Haven

Exactly! Every day thousands of police officers answer calls and help people, sometimes saving lives. Those stories rarely make the news because they’re not sensational enough. That’s just like teachers or doctors or preachers in the news – only the bad ones get media attention. As for the poster who said ” If those good cops don’t do anything about the bad cops then they are the biggest part of the problem.” – who do you think investigated and arrested this guy??

Jones

Tom Martin

Jones

One part of that is relevant. The other part is not. Her race would be the irrelevant part. She’s a victim, period. True her skin is better at blocking out harmful UV rays. But I’m not sure how that’s relevant to this case.

Jones

Whitesrdevils, congrats for showing yourself to be as backwards as all of those white racists that post on Yahoo comments daily. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen them try and use every transgression of any black individual that makes the news as an example of how depraved the Black race is. Race was not relevant in those cases and is not relevant here. Anyone who tries to make it an issue when it clearly is not is simply demonstrating how much air can fit in the head of a human being.

Jones

I don’t know much about the MPD but come on. People can be very good at hiding who they are. There was no way for them to know that this guy was capable of something like this. Child molesters don’t exactly write on their job applications that they molest children.

h d williams

This is not a thing of color. How did you turn this tragedy that has happened to this young girl into a race issue?Do not use this to fight a battle you are fighting. Please look at it for what it is; pray if you pray and hope if you hope, that this young lady and all the families involved get through this as peacefully as possible.

Hard Truths

FEAR AND DISTRUST THE UNIFORM. This is the kind of people who fill police forces, especially after the idealists get sick of it and quit after a few years. So often, it is the long-time cop who is the serious criminal offender. And yeah, the young guys tend to get the DUIs. That’s a shame, actually, but they must be held to the law like anyone else.

But sexual predators are a lot more serious.

We need our minds to grasp the idea that police work attracts, disproportionately, the very people who should not BE cops — authoritarians, control freaks, predators, bullies, cowards.

Orders followers, NOT thinkers.

If I had ever been a cop, I’d be one of those who quit because of the cesspool they work in — and by that I mean their colleagues.

The police hate and despise the public. The public WILL have to deal with them, in no uncertain terms.

We need to hate them as much as they hate us, and we must deal with them accordingly.

ummm...no?

“His first contact was at age 12,” said Dr. Freiden. “Usually ‘12’ is a number that State usually looks at as being way over the line.”

Way over the line? There is a line that exists where it’s more appropriate to sexually abuse a child? So if she was 13 or 14, this wouldn’t have been as traumatizing or this disgusting officer would face less prison time? what the fuck.